Hal Gage, Fine Art Photography - Ice |
halgage@alaska.net |
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| Unlike painting and drawing, photography requires a disconnect of time between the moment of emotional epiphany and the visual manifestation of that creation. The painter sees the brush stroke on the canvas almost instantaneous. The sculpture gets feedback continuously with each cut of the chisel. The photograph is only realized when, much later after the exposure, film is process and the print is made. This disconnect between conception and realization has made pre-visualization (conceiving the final print in the minds eye) part of the aesthetic of photography. Unfortunately this gives many opportunities to reinterpret, and in my opinion mitigate the original moment of creation | |
Until the invention of Polaroid photographic materials, photographic creation largely resided in the mind of the artist until the print could be made hours, days and often years after the initial emotional empitious through the release of the shutter that generated the image. |
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This series was a reaction to that disconnect in the photographic process. Polaroid print materials allow a level of visual feedback that, at the time was not available through conventional photographic processes. |
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Along with symetery and formal composition, this series of original Polaroid camera mono-prints, in their diminutive size (2" square), plays with the eye and the interpretation of the tonal information of a photograph. |
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Visually, I chose a subject and lighting style that suited the contrast and high sensitive to light that the Polaroid materials exhibited. In the high-key work, I sought to investigate the psycological relationship between how the eye preceives positive and negative space as well as the translation of that visual information into depth and volume. Hal Gage |